Niagara Falls Blog

Wow, that’s a long title! The following is from a press release at Hospitality Net from the Skylon Tower: The Skylon Tower announces FREE admission to the popular Niagara Falls attraction Ride-to-the-Top and Indoor/Outdoor Observation Decks when dining. Visitors to Niagara Falls can combine the experience of this favorite Niagara Falls attraction with the best…

From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara’s Fury is facing further delays. Niagara Parks Commission spokesman Tony Baldinelli said Monday it might be Friday before the Transportation Safety Standards Association signs off on the attraction, allowing people to ride. “We’re really at their mercy,” he said.

From the Buffalo News: Norma K. Fulp spends her summer afternoons armed with maps and information as she waits for tourists by the rapids of the upper Niagara River. The part-time nurse and Niagara Falls resident is a volunteer for the Niagara Greeters “Info On the Go” program. The program, in its fifth year, will…

From the Niagara Falls Review: Who says travellers are sticking close to home this summer? Nearly half of America’s 50 states were represented in the Niagara Parks Commission’s parking lot at Table Rock Sunday afternoon. Throngs of people strolled along the walkway adjacent to the falls, lazed in the park, dined in cafes in the…

From the Washington Post: “This book documents an obsession,” writes Ginger Strand in her entertaining study of the exploitation of Niagara Falls, both town and waterfall. Niagara’s history, she claims, is fraught with “falsification, prevarication and omission.” In Inventing Niagara, she sets out on a quest to cut through the cultural accretions of centuries and…

From the Buffalo News: The Seneca Nation sees Niagara Falls’ glass as half full. We see unrealized potential, where some see potholes. Some point at the skyline across the river and bemoan the leadership and hard-working people on this side who get up every day and make Niagara Falls better.

From the Niagara Falls Review: Wherever you go in Niagara Falls, people who work in tourism are nervous right now. Industry operators are walking on eggshells. Workers are wondering if the summer season will be strong enough to give them the hours they need to make ends meet. The American economy is in a tailspin….

This has been a strange year for weather. In mid-April, we had some absolutely gorgeous weather. It was almost summer-like. It lasted for about a week, and then for the last month we’ve had cold/rainy weather. We are certainly used to better weather by now, but we know it’s coming. Anyway, regardless of the weather,…

From the Niagara Falls Review: From the cold, steel hands of futuristic cyborgs to alien attacks on the streets of New York, the project manager and technical director for Niagara’s Fury is well versed in the world of special effects. John Erickson has worked on two of Universal Studios’ main adventure rides at its theme…

From Niagara This Week: Darryl Magierowski has a creative vision for what a T-shirt shop can be and it’s definitely more than simply a place to get a souvenir. It should be an experience. From London, his vision of a retail store, screen printing centre and oddity museum didn’t exactly fit his hometown. He’s found…